A New Reading of Eco-feminism in Two Modern American Fictions

Abstract

This study aims at highlighting three main features of eco-feminism; Spiritual eco-feminism, Power-over concept, Bioregionalism, then giving an examples from the eco-modern American fiction ,such as Rae Meadow's I Will Send Rain (2016) and Alexis M. Smith's Marrow Island (2016). In addition, the study investigates how these features can affect the context of events and the characters' fate, emphasizing that the main features of eco-feminism theory can drive the characters' actions in such type of fiction.This study argues that in spite of the environmental difficulties and the bad circumstances that faces characters, they show a high perseverance, hope, and responsibility in the light of the main features of eco-feminism. The study raises some questions in order to clarify the main argument: First, does the ruined land lead to "ruined women" ? Second, are men responsible for women's and nature's abuse? Third, does the marital status of the female characters affect their ways of countering the eco-disasters and achieving their hope and perseverance? The study adopts a descriptive, analytical and critical approach to describe and analyze some features of eco-feminism-as a critical theory-in the two selected eco-literature examples.